Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 - English essays |
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... religious opinions , and tolerant towards those of others . The book itself will not add much to the fame of Milton . It is , like all his Latin works , well written , though not exactly in the style of the Prize Essays of Oxford and ...
... religious opinions , and tolerant towards those of others . The book itself will not add much to the fame of Milton . It is , like all his Latin works , well written , though not exactly in the style of the Prize Essays of Oxford and ...
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... religion . Reformers have often made a stand against these feelings ; but never with more than apparent and par- tial success . The men , who demolished the images in Ca- thedrals , have not always been able to demolish those which were ...
... religion . Reformers have often made a stand against these feelings ; but never with more than apparent and par- tial success . The men , who demolished the images in Ca- thedrals , have not always been able to demolish those which were ...
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... religion so much , that he hated liberty for having been allied with religion , and has pleaded the cause of tyranny with the dexterity of an advocate , while affect . ing the impartiality of a judge . - The public conduct of Milton ...
... religion so much , that he hated liberty for having been allied with religion , and has pleaded the cause of tyranny with the dexterity of an advocate , while affect . ing the impartiality of a judge . - The public conduct of Milton ...
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... religious opinions . without wishing to make proselytes , or if , wishing even to make proselytes , he had contented himself with exerting only his constitutional influence for that purpose , the Prince of Orange would ever have been ...
... religious opinions . without wishing to make proselytes , or if , wishing even to make proselytes , he had contented himself with exerting only his constitutional influence for that purpose , the Prince of Orange would ever have been ...
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... religious and political enmities rendered a stable and happy settlement next to impossible . The choice lay , not between Cromwell and liberty , but be- tween Cromwell and the Stuarts . That Milton chose well , no man can doubt who ...
... religious and political enmities rendered a stable and happy settlement next to impossible . The choice lay , not between Cromwell and liberty , but be- tween Cromwell and the Stuarts . That Milton chose well , no man can doubt who ...
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Page 56 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Page 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Page 73 - It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.
Page 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Page 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Page 21 - ... human actions, it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one. It is extremely improbable that it would have contained half so much able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees.
Page 21 - fine frenzy " which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made...
Page 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...
Page 23 - And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age. As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, as the outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability...
Page 26 - Milton cannot be comprehended or enjoyed unless the mind of the reader co-operate with that of the writer. He does not paint a finished picture or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline. He strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody.